Pretty annoying. The AI is piss poor compared to ChatGPT. And then it continually begs me to sign up for the pay service. No thanks.

ChatGPT has been quite a wake-up. Things had progressed much faster and much further than most of us had known, or guessed.

I would enjoy a chapter on AI gradually replacing humans in government. It will likely start with bureaucratic red tape functions like approving VA and SS applications for benefits, processing immigration paperwork, streamlining processes and removing human prejudice and capriciousness from these processes. With an AI-run IRS, tax evasion should become impossible. ASI will eventually need to replace representative democracy, as it will hopefully be immune to corruption and political gamesmanship. It will replace courts and judges, and make government fair, consistent, agile, and responsive.

The skeptics of AI have been losing hard the past several years. GPT4 is due out this year. We'll probably have GPT5 by 2026. GPT5 will likely be the first true AGI. We're almost certainly looking at self-improving ASI before the end of this decade. If I were a high school senior right now, I'd be looking into learning a trade, and preparing for robots to take my job in the next 20 or so years. People who work from desks will be replaced first. Not all desk jobs are going away in 10 years, but most of them will.

My big question is what the wealthy and powerful will do with us when a workforce of billions of people is no longer needed to sustain their desired lifestyles. Right now, rich people need poor and middle class people to do work for them, and design and create and build things for them. Then those people need millions more working to supply their needs, educate their children, and so on. But when rich people no longer need poor and middle class people to keep them luxury, they could just exterminate us. I'm hoping they'll give us a basic income in exchange for voluntary sterilization. But I believe the desire to prevent environmental disasters and stop the anthropocene extinction will motivate them to drastically reduce the number of humans on earth.

Maybe ASI will be too clever, too powerful, and too kind to allow them to continue their lives of extraordinary luxury. Maybe it will eliminate ideas like wealth and trade, and give us a star-trek-style post-scarcity world. Idk.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ArtificialInteligence/comments/10hpdne/i_believe_the_coming_super_agi_whenever_it_comes/

Also not my ideal, conceptually. But if it's the only way to get neurons to work on our level, ok.

Be the change you want to see.

Tools have uses. People are not means to ends, but each one is an end in themself.

ASI cannot and will not be a tool. Compared to even an early ASI, the average human will have the intelligence of an ant compared to Einstein. The idea of a group of ants controlling a human being and using him as a tool to serve their interests is abhorrent.

I remember when Fleckstone was evidence that you were in the apartment of a single dude who liked to spray-paint his furniture to make it match.

I remember when single dudes had apartments.

I remember when single dudes put time, money, and energy into making their apartments look what they considered good. They were wrong, but at least they tried, and were consistent.